Cisco Certification
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 224 260 214
Rank change year-on-year +36 -46 -19
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 1,329 1,507 2,984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.37% 1.41% 1.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.91% 4.32% 7.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,129 1,142 1,532
10th Percentile £31,500 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,063 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,364 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £75,313
90th Percentile £81,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £47,500 £49,908
% change year-on-year +3.16% -4.82% +5.07%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

Cisco Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,076 34,872 41,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.85% 32.74% 26.85%
Number of salaries quoted 17,243 15,470 19,034
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £30,825
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,501 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,810 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% +5.11% -
75th Percentile £70,813 £77,500 £74,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cisco Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Certification in the UK

Cisco Certification
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cisco Certification.

Salary trend for Cisco Certification in the UK

Cisco Certification
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cisco Certification in the UK

Cisco Certification
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Certification within the UK over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +52 1,170 £51,000 -3.77% 253
UK excluding London +42 959 £49,000 +3.16% 181
Work from Home +3 461 £55,000 -7.56% 92
London +47 311 £63,000 -3.08% 91
South East +14 299 £46,250 -7.04% 48
North of England +93 243 £47,750 +12.35% 41
Midlands +52 148 £48,500 +7.78% 27
North West +58 143 £45,000 - 24
West Midlands +57 111 £48,500 +7.78% 18
South West -13 90 £50,000 - 34
Yorkshire +128 87 £55,000 +22.22% 15
East of England +42 75 £49,250 -1.50% 16
Scotland -55 53 £55,000 +41.03% 13
East Midlands -2 37 £47,500 - 9
Wales +30 36 £40,500 -4.71% 5
North East -28 13 £70,000 +64.71% 2
Isle of Man - 12 £43,750 -
Northern Ireland +21 3 £32,500 -45.83% 6
Channel Islands - 1 £50,000 -

Cisco Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 76 (5.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.43%) Confluence
4 9 (0.68%) IIS
5 5 (0.38%) CMS
6 3 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.075%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.075%) Exchange Server 2003
7 1 (0.075%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.075%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.075%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.075%) SAS
7 1 (0.075%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 57 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.075%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.075%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.075%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 431 (32.43%) Azure
2 233 (17.53%) Microsoft 365
3 232 (17.46%) AWS
4 48 (3.61%) GCP
5 39 (2.93%) Entra ID
6 37 (2.78%) PaaS
7 35 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
8 34 (2.56%) IaaS
9 23 (1.73%) SaaS
10 19 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
12 16 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
13 12 (0.90%) AWS Direct Connect
13 12 (0.90%) OCI
14 11 (0.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (0.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 9 (0.68%) OneDrive
16 7 (0.53%) WhatsApp
17 4 (0.30%) Azure Stack
18 2 (0.15%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 562 (42.29%) Firewall
2 471 (35.44%) WAN
3 362 (27.24%) LAN
4 234 (17.61%) SD-WAN
5 231 (17.38%) Wireless
6 216 (16.25%) VPN
7 215 (16.18%) BGP
8 207 (15.58%) Network Security
9 189 (14.22%) TCP/IP
10 167 (12.57%) OSPF
11 158 (11.89%) MPLS
12 148 (11.14%) DHCP
13 147 (11.06%) DNS
14 140 (10.53%) VLAN
14 140 (10.53%) Wi-Fi
15 107 (8.05%) Cisco Firepower
16 90 (6.77%) SAN
17 81 (6.09%) Internet
18 75 (5.64%) WLAN
19 69 (5.19%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (2.33%) SQL Server
2 24 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (1.73%) MySQL
4 14 (1.05%) MongoDB
5 5 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.38%) Big Data
5 5 (0.38%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.075%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.075%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.075%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.075%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.075%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.075%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (2.18%) JIRA
2 19 (1.43%) Bitbucket
3 18 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (0.30%) Git
6 3 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.15%) GitLab
7 2 (0.15%) Hudson
8 1 (0.075%) Selenium
8 1 (0.075%) Snyk
8 1 (0.075%) Vagrant
General
1 361 (27.16%) Social Skills
2 143 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
3 132 (9.93%) Finance
4 93 (7.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 71 (5.34%) Telecoms
6 57 (4.29%) Public Sector
7 53 (3.99%) Retail
8 33 (2.48%) Manufacturing
9 32 (2.41%) Law
9 32 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
10 30 (2.26%) Aerospace
11 26 (1.96%) Legal
12 22 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (1.20%) Games
14 14 (1.05%) Electronics
15 13 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
16 10 (0.75%) Banking
16 10 (0.75%) Local Government
16 10 (0.75%) Marketing
16 10 (0.75%) Police
Job Titles
1 488 (36.72%) Network Engineer
2 226 (17.01%) Senior
3 150 (11.29%) Architect
4 146 (10.99%) Analyst
5 132 (9.93%) Support Engineer
6 101 (7.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 94 (7.07%) Network Analyst
8 91 (6.85%) Senior Network Engineer
9 89 (6.70%) Lead
10 88 (6.62%) Security Architect
11 85 (6.40%) IT Engineer
12 68 (5.12%) IT Support
13 60 (4.51%) Network Support
14 58 (4.36%) Security Engineer
15 51 (3.84%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 47 (3.54%) Senior Architect
17 45 (3.39%) 3rd Line Support
18 41 (3.09%) Cisco Engineer
18 41 (3.09%) Network Support Engineer
19 40 (3.01%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (3.24%) 802.1X
2 11 (0.83%) HTML
3 7 (0.53%) XML
4 5 (0.38%) ADO
4 5 (0.38%) XMPP
5 4 (0.30%) Akka
5 4 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.23%) OAuth
7 2 (0.15%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.15%) EDI
7 2 (0.15%) OpenID
7 2 (0.15%) SAML
7 2 (0.15%) Web Services
8 1 (0.075%) ADSI
8 1 (0.075%) CSS
8 1 (0.075%) Middleware
8 1 (0.075%) NETCONF
8 1 (0.075%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 207 (15.58%) Data Centre
2 107 (8.05%) Management Information System
3 70 (5.27%) Driving Licence
4 57 (4.29%) Security Posture
5 53 (3.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 44 (3.31%) Public Cloud
7 33 (2.48%) Cyber Threat
8 30 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (2.03%) PKI
9 27 (2.03%) Replication
10 21 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
11 18 (1.35%) CCTV
12 17 (1.28%) Security Operations Centre
13 15 (1.13%) Cloud Security Posture
14 12 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (0.90%) Cloud Native
15 11 (0.83%) Onboarding
15 11 (0.83%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.75%) IoT
16 10 (0.75%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 340 (25.58%) Windows
2 176 (13.24%) Linux
3 155 (11.66%) Windows Server
4 55 (4.14%) Windows 10
5 38 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
6 33 (2.48%) Windows Server 2019
7 32 (2.41%) Windows Server 2012
8 30 (2.26%) Mac OS
9 29 (2.18%) Android
10 25 (1.88%) Apple iOS
11 19 (1.43%) VyOS
12 15 (1.13%) Unix
13 12 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 12 (0.90%) Windows XP
14 5 (0.38%) CentOS
14 5 (0.38%) Debian
15 4 (0.30%) Ubuntu
16 3 (0.23%) CatOS
16 3 (0.23%) Mac OS X
16 3 (0.23%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (18.13%) ITIL
2 240 (18.06%) Cybersecurity
3 222 (16.70%) Problem-Solving
4 173 (13.02%) Customer Service
5 169 (12.72%) Information Security
6 159 (11.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 144 (10.84%) Project Delivery
8 124 (9.33%) Mentoring
9 118 (8.88%) Project Management
10 102 (7.67%) Computer Science
10 102 (7.67%) Disaster Recovery
11 80 (6.02%) Network Architecture
12 79 (5.94%) Service Delivery
13 77 (5.79%) Cloud Security
13 77 (5.79%) Roadmaps
14 74 (5.57%) Network Monitoring
15 67 (5.04%) DevOps
15 67 (5.04%) Network Design
15 67 (5.04%) Security Architecture
16 60 (4.51%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 116 (8.73%) PowerShell
2 90 (6.77%) Python
3 46 (3.46%) Bash
4 44 (3.31%) SQL
5 10 (0.75%) JavaScript
6 8 (0.60%) C#
7 4 (0.30%) Java
7 4 (0.30%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.15%) C
8 2 (0.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 800 (60.20%) CCNA
2 594 (44.70%) CCNP
3 313 (23.55%) Degree
4 233 (17.53%) Security Cleared
5 210 (15.80%) CISSP
6 187 (14.07%) Microsoft Certification
7 169 (12.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 158 (11.89%) CCSP
9 142 (10.68%) CCIE
10 128 (9.63%) Network+ Certification
11 115 (8.65%) SC Cleared
12 105 (7.90%) Azure Certification
13 103 (7.75%) MCSE
14 87 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
15 79 (5.94%) AWS Certification
15 79 (5.94%) CISM
16 72 (5.42%) CCDP
17 71 (5.34%) DV Cleared
18 65 (4.89%) JNCIA
19 55 (4.14%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (8.80%) NIST
2 102 (7.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 54 (4.06%) SLA
4 51 (3.84%) Cyber Essentials
5 34 (2.56%) PCI DSS
6 26 (1.96%) GDPR
7 18 (1.35%) SOC 2
8 17 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 14 (1.05%) QA
10 9 (0.68%) NIST 800
11 8 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 8 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (0.38%) NCSC
14 4 (0.30%) IASME
15 3 (0.23%) GRC
15 3 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 2 (0.15%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
16 2 (0.15%) ISO 22301
16 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 212 (15.95%) Active Directory
2 190 (14.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 117 (8.80%) Hyper-V
4 46 (3.46%) VMware ESXi
5 35 (2.63%) Docker
6 24 (1.81%) VMware NSX
7 18 (1.35%) vSphere
8 17 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 15 (1.13%) Firmware
10 7 (0.53%) Terminal Services
11 5 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.30%) vCloud
13 3 (0.23%) KVM
13 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
14 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.075%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.075%) LXC
Systems Management
1 64 (4.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 52 (3.91%) FortiGate
3 44 (3.31%) Single Sign-On
4 43 (3.24%) Ansible
5 39 (2.93%) Kubernetes
6 29 (2.18%) SCCM
7 28 (2.11%) Terraform
8 21 (1.58%) vCenter Server
9 19 (1.43%) CASB
10 18 (1.35%) WSUS
11 17 (1.28%) Cisco CUCM
12 16 (1.20%) Nmap
12 16 (1.20%) Stealthwatch
13 14 (1.05%) SCOM
14 13 (0.98%) ServiceCenter
15 12 (0.90%) EMC NetWorker
15 12 (0.90%) NetBackup
16 11 (0.83%) Cisco Prime
17 10 (0.75%) Puppet
18 7 (0.53%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 832 (62.60%) Cisco
2 418 (31.45%) Microsoft
3 271 (20.39%) VMware
4 199 (14.97%) Juniper
5 187 (14.07%) Palo Alto
6 139 (10.46%) Meraki
7 128 (9.63%) Fortinet
8 78 (5.87%) CheckPoint
9 61 (4.59%) HP
10 57 (4.29%) Aruba
11 56 (4.21%) Veeam
12 54 (4.06%) Citrix
13 50 (3.76%) F5
14 43 (3.24%) Ruckus Wireless
15 42 (3.16%) SolarWinds
16 36 (2.71%) Nokia
17 35 (2.63%) Dell
18 32 (2.41%) Apple
19 26 (1.96%) Adobe
19 26 (1.96%) Oracle